How the Cochrane collaboration is responding to the Asian tsunami

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 0483-0485

  Tharyan, Prathap ^a,b   Clarke, Mike ^c   Green, Sally ^d  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b Australasian Cochrane Centre   (Australia)

^c UK COCHRANE CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCHRANE LIBRARY; DISASTER; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; PATIENT COUNSELING; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED NATIONS; ARTICLE; ASIA; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CRISIS INTERVENTION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LITERATURE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RELIEF WORK;

ASIA; CRISIS INTERVENTION; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; DISASTERS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; RELIEF WORK; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 22144485204     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020169     Document Type: Short Survey

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